Over the course of the past decade one of the things that permeate the internet around New Years are reading goals. People make wild proclamations on how many books they intend on reading and companies like GoodReads help facilitate it. Reading goals are 100% useless and it feels like people are just flexing and grunting at the gym bragging, about how much they press. Reading … [Read more...] about Reading Goals are Useless
Archives for 2017
Marvel Creates New Fanfiction Community
Marvel has created a new system for people who want to create their own comics in conjunction with TapTap. This self-publishing solution is called Marvel: Create Your Own and it allows creators to mess around with established characters, select a background and write in text via speech bubbles. All content is submitted to the new Marvel community and will be available online … [Read more...] about Marvel Creates New Fanfiction Community
327 Million Chinese are reading digital content on their smartphones
The digital publishing market in China is booming and according to official estimates, there were 353 million online literature readers by June 2017 and more than 90% of them – nearly 327 million readers are accessing ebooks on their smartphones.According to a report released this week by Chinese research firm iResearch, the market for online literature — fiction stories … [Read more...] about 327 Million Chinese are reading digital content on their smartphones
The Best Amazon Digital Day Deals for Readers
Amazon Digital Day is occuring today and there are a ton of deals available for people who have a Kindle and want to purchase new digital comics and ebooks. This is the first year that Amazon has has been running this problem and it should continue into the future.ComicsMarvel Digital Comics - 75% off DC Kindle eComics Up to 75% Off Star Wars Kindle eComics Up … [Read more...] about The Best Amazon Digital Day Deals for Readers
Your 2018 Writing Resolutions
For a variety of political and societal reasons, authors have been coming forth in recent weeks to admit to their lack of creative luster during the past year. A number of supportive conversations have taken place--and even a meme or two--about getting back out there from a creative productivity standpoint.For those writers looking to regain their focus in 2018 and put out … [Read more...] about Your 2018 Writing Resolutions
Bookstores Are Dying…And It’s Certainly Taking Them Long Enough
Facetiously speaking, it took an estimated four minutes from the launch of the first-ever Kindle and Amazon bookstore for someone to whine that it would be the death of bookstores. The industry has been incessantly proclaiming "the end of bookstores" for years now, and if articles like this one are any indication, they're still not done announcing the end is nigh.Well, … [Read more...] about Bookstores Are Dying…And It’s Certainly Taking Them Long Enough
Pocketbook Touch HD vs Pocketbook Touch HD 2
Pocketbook has released a bunch of new e-readers in 2017 and the ones we are looking at today is the Touch HD and the Touch HD 2. The main difference with the second generation model is that it is a candlelight screen, which is the same technology found on the Kobo Aura One and Nook Glowlight 3. You can use the slider bar to mute the bright white screen and get various degrees … [Read more...] about Pocketbook Touch HD vs Pocketbook Touch HD 2
Full Milo Yiannopolous Manuscript Released With Editor’s Comments
Milo Yiannopolous has made waves for years, but more recently, he made news in the publishing world for losing out on a book deal that included a $250,000 advance. A number of people assumed that Simon & Schuster cancelled his book deal for his manuscript, Dangerous, following the release of a taped interview in which Yiannopolous made glib remarks seemingly in support of … [Read more...] about Full Milo Yiannopolous Manuscript Released With Editor’s Comments
Amazon Provides Some Interesting Holiday Statistics on Audiobooks and Ebooks
Every year Amazon pushes out a press release that talks about the top trends of the Christmas season and also what were the most popular items. Many media outlets have talked about how Alexa sales went through the roof this year or what electronics sold the most units. Lost in the shuffle were a number of audiobook, ebook and Amazon Bookstore statistics that go far beyond the … [Read more...] about Amazon Provides Some Interesting Holiday Statistics on Audiobooks and Ebooks
Here are the most popular Kobo eBooks of 2017
Kobo has over five million ebooks in their digital bookstore and with so many titles available, what are the ones that proved to be the most popular in 2017? Kobo has just released new data that takes a look at the ebooks that sold the most units this year in Canada and the United States. Here’s a look at just 10 of the most popular reads this year—ranging from dark thrillers … [Read more...] about Here are the most popular Kobo eBooks of 2017
Kobo Aura One Limited Edition 32GB Review
The Kobo Aura One Limited Edition has two major selling points; it has 32GB of internal storage and a new rapid page turn engine. This device is only available in the United States and Japan, it is roughly costs $40 more than the regular model that came out in 2016. One of the reasons why this device was made was to appeal towards people with large manga and PDF … [Read more...] about Kobo Aura One Limited Edition 32GB Review
Smashwords Unveils End of Year Sale
Smashwords is one of the largest independant self-publishing solutions and they have just announced their first ever end of year sale. There are currently 30,000 indie ebooks and from 6,000 and they are discounted anywhere from 25% to 75%. The deals are active from December 25th to January 1st.Smashwords is well known to harbor hundreds of thousands of ebooks that have no … [Read more...] about Smashwords Unveils End of Year Sale
Amazon Launches Beta Program to Publish eBooks in Arabic
Amazon is launching a new beta program for authors and publishers who use Kindle Direct Publishing to submit ebooks in Arabic. These digital titles will have a built in font that will allow Arabic users to increase the font size, margins and everything else. The ebooks will be able to be read on the Kindle, Fire Tablet and various Kindle apps for Android and iOS.The Beta … [Read more...] about Amazon Launches Beta Program to Publish eBooks in Arabic
Cengage Launching an Unlimited Digital Textbook Service
Every semester students are purchasing over $579 dollars in textbooks and some are finding this an expensive proposition. Due to rising tuition fees and the high cost of student housing, many students are buying their textbooks used or pirating them. Cengage is one of the largest textbook publishers in the world and they are going to ease student suffering by launching an … [Read more...] about Cengage Launching an Unlimited Digital Textbook Service